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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 1660944" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>My cows are on irrigated hay fields. The regrowth since about the first of August. I started feeding hay at about half rations starting in December. Bumped it to full rations 10 days ago. It has snowed 6-8 times. Just an inch or two that was gone pretty quick. I can't think of a day in the last 2 1/2 months that it wasn't below freezing at sun rise. Pretty much a high of 40 and a low of 20. Never below 15 or above 44. </p><p>By the book these cows need 22.3 pounds of DM a day, they are being fed 25 pounds. They are above book levels on both protein and TDN. They get fed first thing in the morning. By evening they are spread out over the field, in the ditches, and long the river bank picking at what ever they can find. I think that freeze/thaw softens up that old dry grass making it easier for them to bite off and chew.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 1660944, member: 498"] My cows are on irrigated hay fields. The regrowth since about the first of August. I started feeding hay at about half rations starting in December. Bumped it to full rations 10 days ago. It has snowed 6-8 times. Just an inch or two that was gone pretty quick. I can't think of a day in the last 2 1/2 months that it wasn't below freezing at sun rise. Pretty much a high of 40 and a low of 20. Never below 15 or above 44. By the book these cows need 22.3 pounds of DM a day, they are being fed 25 pounds. They are above book levels on both protein and TDN. They get fed first thing in the morning. By evening they are spread out over the field, in the ditches, and long the river bank picking at what ever they can find. I think that freeze/thaw softens up that old dry grass making it easier for them to bite off and chew. [/QUOTE]
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